Re: Re: [gentoo-user] SATA and RAID

My moterboard (Tyan Tiger) does nto have SATA support so I need a separate card.

For RAID I'm running RAID10 on an existing SCSI system - two RAID1 combined to a RAID0 but I'm open to better things.

Filesystem of choice is XFS but what did you find?

>
> From: Ron Bickers <rbickers-list-gentoo-user@××××××××.com>
> Date: 2005/09/22 Thu AM 12:59:51 EDT
> To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
> CC: "Brett I. Holcomb" <brettholcomb@×××××××××.net>
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] SATA and RAID
>
> On Wed September 21 2005 09:51 pm, Brett I. Holcomb wrote:
>
> > 1.  For SATA RAID what cards and drives do you recommend for a desktop
> > system running Gentoo.  I will be doing some audio recording on a dual AMD
> > 1.6 with 2 gig
> > of memory
>
> I'm running several Seagate 200GB drives with the SATA controllers on the
> Intel 915G boards I have.  The driver is included with the kernel (ata_piix)
> and I've had no problems with it.  Linux treats it as a SCSI device.  If
> you're buying a separate card, you might want to check around for
> availability and stability of the drivers first.
>
> In my experience, audio recording has relatively low hardware requirements
> for today's machines, unless you're trying to do some heaving
> encoding/compressing on-the-fly.
>
> > 2.  If I went with SATA how much does using software RAID and LVM hurt me?
>
> That depends on what you mean by RAID (0, 1, 5, etc.) and what you want out
> of it.  I have two 200GB SATA drives setup with LVM's striping and the read
> and write throughput is considerably faster (benchmarked and perceived) than
> with one drive.
>
> > 3.  Anything else I should know?
>
> Your choice of file system may make as much of a difference as anything.
> Consider running tests if you aren't married to one already.
>
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